3D Army Crushes Savage Assaults Along Saar Front

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Vol/1—No. 137 lFr. JfeYork ^PARIS — L o n don lFr. Monday, Dec. 11, 1944 Flood or No Flood — The Supplies Go Forward 3d Army Crushes Savage Assaults Along Saar Front

American armies plowed slowly eastward through the German snows yesterday against the River Roer's stubborn defenses and beat off savage counter-attacks in the Saar Basin. In the south, the U.S. Seventh Army troops, driving along the western mountain slopes of the Vosges, entered Enchenberg, seven miles south of the Alsatian-Saar frontier. Attacking in misty dawn, Lt. Gen. Courtney H. Hodges' OS. Army Signal Corps Photo. Flood conditions which have plagued Allied armies in tlie Low Countries, France and Germany U.S. First Army men pushed one kilometer at points along hamper but fail to stop supplies for the. armies. U.S. Engineers are here shown loading rations an eight-mile frbnt to the western edge of three villages onto a truck near the Moselle River, which reached its highest level in 30 years. about a mile and one-half from the Roer. They waded through fields muddy with snow which melted under the dim De- cember sun. Nazis Fleeing Budapest Doughfeet Find Way 'No Gas' Halted Northward on virtually the same To Offset Ammo Lack front, U.S. Ninth Army's XTX ; Driveto Berlin, Corps stamped out the last enemy j As Soviet Arc Closes In WITH THE 104th DIV. IN pocket on the Roer's west bank in i GERMANY.—Gompany G of the the Julich sector by clearing the 415th Inf. Regt., l«?d by 1/Lt. Jim Industry Told fanatically - defended Sportspalast, Russian troops, driving a 37-mile wedge into the Ger- Millinor, of Madison, Fla., killed municipal center of the Nazi Youth 35 Nazis, captured 54 more and movement. man defenses north of Budapest, yesterday smashed to Stars and Stripes U.S. Bureau gained their objective—a factory NEW YORK, Dec. 10.—Gen. Pat- Counter-attack Beaten within three and five miles of the Hungarian capital near Lamersclorf—without a ton's Third Army might be in Ber- Ninth Army men saw one enemy single bullet in their guns. on the east and south, forging a steel arc two-thirds around lin today if his swiftly advancing counter-attack get under way in the Because the night was so dark tanks before Metz had been sup- vicinity of a railway underpass at the city. and accuracy impossible, it was plied with vital gasoline from Miillerdorf, at 1615'yesterday. Amer-. derided it wouldjse wiser to use Enemy troops werefc in retreat French beaches 600 miles away, ican planes arid artillery went into only grenades'and bayonets.' Increase Draft all along trie 200-mile Hungarian Frederick Crawford, Cleveland in- action. At 1637, the attack folded front, as the Soviet steamroller, Under the last rounds of an dustrialist, told the National Asso- and died. highlighted by a new crossing of artillery barrage, G Company ciation of Manufacturers yesterday. South of the First and Ninth jumped off. Ten minutes later Of 26-37 Class the Danube River south of Buda- "Only the impossibility of sup- Armies' Roer River positions, U.S. pest, blasted open the road to they hit their objective. Forty- Third Army men fought determined five -minutes later the factory plying fuel over vast distances gave Vienna, now 100 miles from Gen. the enemy time to reform," said enemy thrusts to stop Lt. Gen. . WASHINGTON, Dec. 10 (ANS). Malinovsky's spearheads. was theirs, an! only then did George S. Patton Jr's advance in they load thei • guns, in time to Crawford, who recently returned —Drafting of men from 26 to 37 Pravda asserted that the mauled from a five-week tour of the West- the Saar. German and Hungarian forces repulse seven German counter- An attack by 200 Wehrmacht in- was ordered increased today to pro- attacks. ern Front. vide replacements for soldiers and were using up their last tactical "It finally became humanly im- fantry, supported by six tanks, reserves and forecast an imminent forced 90th Division men out of sailors released to manpower-short possible to keep this great army collapse of the entire Hungarian of mechanized equipment supplied. Siegfried pillboxes near Dillingen, war plants. front. TireSpotCheck Patton ordered gas from trucks put but the doughfeet slugge- their way War Mobilization Director James Poised on Danube into his tanks and told his men back after bitter fighting, said Stars F. Byrnes asked for the step as the to 'go until the tanks stop—and and Stripes Correspondent Jimmy government sought 300,000 workers Units of Malinovsky's army are Cannon. poised for a new smash across the Is Set for ETO then get out and walk'—-and they for war industries to bring lagging did; they walked right through Patton's 35th Division, hammering production of critical materials up Danube onto the main Vienna into Saarguemines, met counter- highway to cut the Budapest forces' Gen. Eisenhower's headquarters Metz, but had to pull out later." to schedule. He said that Patton remarked of blows by from 13 to 15 tanks and last link with their rear. revealed yesterday that to put teeth German infantry and By another In another move, the Army ob- Malinovsky's new Danube cross- into the tire conservation program, a supply truck which arrived at tained an agreement for a seven- the front with food: - force of five tanks and infantry. ing, most powerful yet launched, Tire Inspection teams are being These were blasted by combined day work week for four months in formed to make "frequent and "What's the matter with the sup- was made under cover of an artil- (Continued on Page 8) plants manufacturing truck tires lery barrage. Accompanied by So- unannounced inspections" of units ply man? Doesn't he know we can and tubes, which the Army lists viet dive bombers it increased the in the ETO and 'report all delin- get on without eating, but we can't among its most important short- panic of the German and Hunga- quencies. advance without gas?" ages rian elements in their rout from The teams, consisting of one offi- Crawford said VI buzz bombs Warships Silence Byrnes said that the Army and the city. cer and two EMs, and sent out on were creating "havoc in supply sys- Navy had released "several thous- Prisoners said that the German the basis of one team for every tems" with V2 rockets appearing Bonin Defenses and" men to war plants and de- defense line is cracking and re- 10,000 vehicles, are also directed In greater number. "Our generals," mands for such releases are in- ported that the defenders began to instruct the units in proper tire he said, "expect new and more NEW YORK, Dec. 10 (ANS).— creasing. maintenance. their panicky retreat before orders frightful inventions." Warships of the U.S. Fifth Fleet had been issued. shelled Japanese bases on the Bonin Germans Improve From bridgeheads won in the Islands for seventy minutes over past few days, Malinovsky is pour- Ike Renews Call for Ammo, the weekend in what military ob- ing still more troops and equip- servers called "a possible softening U-Boat, Allies Say ment across the Danube to join up blow" for new U.S: landings on Gen. Tolbukhin's army in an en- the enemy's last island outposts circling sweep from the south. Urges Combat Payfor Med ics WASHINGTON, Dec. 10 (ANS).— guarding the Jap mainland, 750 The Soviet breakthrough across miles away. German submarines are now equip- the Danube was made in the face The 17 ETO-junketing Congress- Gen. Eisenhower informed the ped with new devices which enable The naval raid followed up Thurs- of extremely strong defenses, - in- men, visiting the> advance SHAEF Congressmen, in answer to a ques- day's B29-B24 raid on the Bonins, them to remain submerged for Command Post yesterday, were tion on France's military position, longer periods and to penetrate (Continued on Page 8) when nearly 1,000 tons of explosives told by Gen. Eisenhower that fluc- that the French will share with the were dropped. into areas formerly denied them, a tuating conditions of warfare and other Allied nations in the eventual joint British-American announce- 8th Patrols Score Gains weather had upset estimates of occupation of the Reich. In the closing minutes of the ment revealed tonight. ammunition needs, and that no Congresswoman-playwright Claire bombardment, cruisers closed to The announcement said that Southwest of Faenza blame for the current shortage of Boothe Luce, the only woman pre- within 7,000 yards of the beaches losses from U-boat action last artillery shells could be placed in sent, was asked how she found the drilling shells onto airfields and month were again "very small" ALLIED HQ, Italy, Dec. 10.— any one quarter. He declared that war fronts. "Oh, I knew where they shore installations. Enemy shore and that the proportionate number Heavy fighting under adverse the main point now was that more were," she replied serenely. guns quit firing ten minutes after of subs sunk was "very satisfac- weather conditions continued today shells were needed and should The Congressmen came laden the American fleet had opened up. tory." The statement warned that southwest of Faenza, where British be supplied in the shortest pos- with "Christmas presents," includ- In China, meanwhile, Imperial the Nazis are still manufacturing patrols of the Eighth Army scored sible time. ing a bottle of Kentucky bourbon Chinese troops recaptured Tushan submarines and reports that they local gains. The general also recommended whisky, a jar of pork sausage and on the Kweichow-Kwangsi railway, are abandoning construction not North of Ravenna, other Eighth to the Congressmen that combat a box of hominy grits, for which thus temporarily removing the only are untrue but probably are Army patrols pushed across flooded pay be given to medics serving with ■he has expressed a fondness. Dee threat against Kweiyang, capital of German-inspired country to Valli di Cammachio. fighting battalions. sent the whisky to a hospital. Kweichow Province, 70 miles away; Page 2 THE STARS AND STRIPES Monday, Dec. 11, 1944 Outfit 'Deals' Six Generals In Cantured Lone Yank Shoots Up a Town SaluteSergeant By Jimmy Cannon Stars and Stripes Staff Writer A QS>E MAN ARMY IS S/SGT. JUNIOR J. azi Materiel WITH THE 35th INF. DIV., SPURRIER OF THE S5™ INF. DIV,WHICH WhoWonCMH LORRAINE, Dec. 10.—S/Sgt. James ATTACKED THE TOWN OF ACH AlN IN 0y Charles White Spurrier admits he was in Achain THE (ACE OF HEAVY FIRE. CO G MOVED IK , By Dan Regan Stars and Stripes Staff Writer that day. FROM THE EAST—NOT SO #SGT. SPURRIER] Stars and Stripes Staff Writer BELGIUM.—An engineer outfit The ones who watched him that , WHO ENTERED ALONE FROM THE WEST. WITH U.S. SEVENTH ARMY.-s here under 2/Lt. C. J. Plynn, of day say James Spurrier, who is a When Lt. Gen. Alexander M. Patchy Galesburg, 111., is helping solve the 21-year-old Regular Army man from commander of the Seventh Army, Blue Ridge, West Va., took the town pinned the Congressional Medal of problem of what to do with captur- with a solitary offensive that last- ed German equipment. They just ed eight hours under constant fire. Honor on T/Sgt. Homer L. "Blackie'! don't haul in quantities of un- They counted the dead when he Wise and turned to five other classified materiel and dump it. was through. He had killed 25 general officers and said, '"Gentle- Germans and captured 18 more, Instead they send out for what they men, let's give this man a salute,'' including a lieutenant and a cap- one of the great stories of indi-! want. tain. They say he fired weapons vidual heroism in. World War II For example, a call comes in from he had never seen before. Before j came to light. a captured town across the German the day was over he had used a j The simple, pithy language of border. "We've got a lot of pre- German BAR and an American ! ! the War Department citation which fabricated landing craft here, and BAR; a German bazooka and an THE STREETS WERE | accompanied the medal tells the other stuff. Want it?"« American bazooka, and grenades FULL OF GERMANS. HE KILLED story of the 27-year-old member of of many types. The outfit, which is officially THREE OF THEM WITH HIS M-l, S/S6T. JUN OR J. SPURRIER ' the 36th Div. from Baton Rouge, AND METHODICALLY CLEANED „ <* BLUERELD,W.VA. titled a "captured enemy engineer 'Shooting and Ducking' La. It reads: OUT THE BUILDINGS ONE BYONE "THE ONE MAN ARMY Rescues Soldier consolidation point," sends out its "This was not jhc act of a dumb USING ANY WEAPON HE surveyors, 2/Lt. H. M. Taylor, of brave soldier. Every move he made COULD FIND,GERMAN "In an attack on Lagliano, Italy, St. Louis, and 2/Lt. William Mulla- for eight hours was carefully figur- OR AMERICAN. Sgt. Wise led three other men hy, Troy. N.Y.. who look over the ed out," said Ma.,. F. C. Roecker, through sweeping fires to carry a stuff and decide whether engineers of Walla Walla, Wash. "I watched member of -his platoon to a point can use it. If so, it is hauled back, him rove through the town search- where he could be given medical where it is classified, repaired, and ing for Gernfans. He drove them treatment. Later he noticed an inventoried. from one end of the town to the enemy officer and two men armed Has Negro Workers other. I saw him fire the different with automatic weapons sneaking to the side in an effort to flank The engineer outfit, is made up weapons and I've never seen a cooler or a smarter soldier." his unit. He rushed forward alone from a Negro general service regi- and sub-machine-gunned all three. ment. "He'd use one weapon until he ran out of ammo and then picked "Returning to his unit he found When Americans took Verviers, another one up and fiddled around them facing a disastrously effect- they captured a naval dump which with it until he started it going. We ive fire from enemy gunners in de- had ship sterns, prefabricated land- would never have taken the town filated positions inaccessible to ing craft, and a full line of invasion that day if it wasn't for him." small arms fire from our troops* materiel. All this is now ready for "It beats me," said Spurrier. "I He gathered up all available anti- use against its builders. was paying no attention. Ask tank grenades and moving through Catalogue items include electrical them what seen it. I was shooting a hail of bullets, inflicted so many supplies and generators; 50 diesel and ducking and I don't remember casualties on the foe that their engines^ electric heaters; railroad much." positions became untenable and cars; ties; water purifying unit; they fled. railway bridge; and enough pre- Mans Tank Gun fabricated hutting to house a couple of regiments. Christmas But Once "The battalion moved forward to Pfc kalinowski of the 7th— its immediate objective and came A Year; 2nd Ready under machine-gun fire. The range One Hero Among Hundred* was too great for his sub-machine 134th Company SECOND INF. DIV. — The gun so he picked up an automatic survey section of an artillery rifle and walked forward, firing battalion with this division be- By Marshall Morgan leap up and sprint to a nearby his weapon from a standing posi- Does Night Job lieves in long-range planning. Stars and Stripes Special Writer house. tion. Men in the outfit got their WITH THE SEVENTH ARMOR- Apparently the German tank "His company again moved forward and, noticing a machine-gun WITH THE 35TH INF. DIV.— Christmas tree ready early this ED DIV. Dec. 10.—For three days commander didn't thoroughly sense the situation. Two men were stand- mount on a tank unmanned he There are some Joes in Company month. It's four feet high with in late October the men of the I of the 134th Infantry Regiment GI candles and a star made ing lip in the turret. leaped upon the tank, repaired the who engage in special after-dark from a tin can. "Lucky Seventh," outnumbered two Kalinowski got both from nis jammed weapon and fired 750 activity. They call themselves the to one, held fast against some of concealed position. The Tiger be- rounds that neutralized flanking Blackface Raiders. the most vicious, determined and gan to back out. its driver obviously positions." A veteran of five major battles, Right now the Raiders consist of 28th Inf. Div. sustained counter-attacks yet confused Because of him, and the nundreds Sgt. Wise also holds the Silver Star, eight enlisted men and one officer. launched on the Western Front. In the past two weeks they have WITH 28th INF. DIV.—The 28th of Seventh men who duplicated his the Bronze, Star medal and the sneaked into enemy lines on seven Division's APO claims to be the first You can pick your heroes at heroism against heartbreaking Purple Heart with two oak leaf night patrols, two of the missions Army postoffice set up in Germany. random. odds, a thin line held, and the clusters. have been reconnaissance while the Cpl. Henry J. LaTour, T/5 Richard John Kalinowski is a Pfc. He British-Canadian expedition against Morgan and Pvt. Kenneth Weller others have been combat patrols. came into the Army from Terry- Antwerp escaped a threat against 4th Inf. Div. Burnt cork is part of their uniform. crossed the border with the first its vital supply line. Members of the Raiders—who to truckload of mail at 4:50 PM on ville, Conn., went into the Seventh's Oct. 26. At 5:57 the rest of ,he 48th Inf., and was just another WITH THE FOURTH INF. DIV, date have not suffered a casualty- 634th FABnT GERMANY. — When five replace* include S/Sgt. John J. Reddy, unit's personnel had crossed into footslogger facing the Tigers and the Reich and by 9:30 they were in Panthers and Panzer Grenadiers at ments arrived at this division, they Williston Park, N.Y.; S/Sgt. Leon WITH SEVENTH ARMY.—The were booked for future duty with Pinkard, Roanoke, Ala.; Pfc Ro- operation. MeijeL Working in the APO are 1/Lt. Kalinowski was digging for all 634th Field Artillery's 100,000th the K9 corps. bert L. McGhee, Hurricane, W.Va.; combat round—hand decorated and They were five puppies whose and Pvts. James B.. Garren, Li- Billy M. Wall, S/Sgt. Wilbert R. he was worth when he saw two Adams, T/4 Walter L. Sackett, T/4 Germans creeping toward his posi- ceremoniously dispatched — has mother, Pouche, had joined the out- berty, S.G.; Reuben F. Miller, been sent screaming over the lines. Marquis P. Eckels, T/4 Max L. Noe, tion. He grabbed his rifle and fit at Montebourg. Pierre, the f atheJV Womelsdorf, Pa.; Donald A. Fuller, The round, which marked the T/4 Paul L. BrowH, Sgt. David A killed both. showed up sometime later. Milwaukee; Willie Turner, Jackson- climax of the 634th' battle across ville, Fla.; and Clarence R. Finn, Follweiler, T/5 Francis E. Mc- A machine-gun nest then opened s Men of the Fourth claim the on him at short range. Lying flat, France, was fired by a composite litter is the first produced on the Shamokin, Pa. Donald, T/5 Thomas A. Zender, T/5 gun crew, made up of men from Charles R. Ruhe, Pfc Pat E. Welch, he shouted directions that brought Continent under American auspices. Pfc Paul L. Palmer, Pfc Joseph J. artillery bursts on his position a each of the battalion's batteries and headed by Maj. Al D. Sims, Okla- 7th Armored Div. Praisler, Pvt. Arthur Measel and few moments later. Kalinowski took advantage of the covering fire to homa City, Okla. During the 634th's GIs Swipe Girders Pvt. Irving Robbin. 21 months overseas, the outfit has WITH 7th ARMORED DIV.—An fought in support of ten different Behind Nazi Lines artillery forward observer, who American divisions, operated with an infantry task Here's How, to Save Ammo A squad of engineers stole force within 50 yards of enemy into the German lines with a lines, has been awarded the Silver 8th Inf. Div. LOT of ammunition could be saved if units with a surplus amount mobile crane and brought back Star. He is 2/Lt. George K. Tan- steel girders needed for a bridge ham, of New York, member of a A would return it in original, unopened containers, Capt. David E. Until he got his most recent let- Fullmer, of the 637th Ord. Am. Co., reports. ter from home, Capt. Tom Lowery repair job nea- Metz, Maj. Gen. field artillery battalion. C. R. Moore, Chief Engineer of Tanham remained with the dough- "Hundreds of rounds are brought back by eager beavers who of Dodge City, Kan., and the Eig ;h don't trust their basic loads and draw in excess," Capt. Fullmer as- Inf Div., always figured there the European Theater, revealed boys three days and on countless yesterday. occasions adjusted artillery fire to serts. "This excess ammo is carried around for a month or two, would be someone "back there" to taken out of original containers and exposed to the weather. Then keep the home fires burning. The men, led by Capt. Ni- keep the American positions from cholas G. Cots, of Chicago, being overrun. it is returned to the dump. His mother is in the Air Force "We strive to issue top-grade ammo because lives may depend WACs, one sister is in the Navy moved under cover of darkness on it, but we cannot guarantee ammo that has been taken out of Nurse Corps, another sister is in beneath the noses of the Nazi They Should Know! the original packaging." the Marines, and his only brother guns, taking with them one of WITH 35th INF. DIV. — Ger- Capt. Fullmer, whose company has been serving ammo to troops is in the Navy. But his father was the outfit's own cranes. The man captives wearing the Stalin- on the Continent since D-plus 2, offers the following suggestions: still at home. steel girders were lifted into the grad medal call it the "Gefrier- Don't open small arms boxes until the latest possible moment; be The other day Capt. Lowery air and carried back into U.S. fleisch Medaille" — the "Frozen careful of rocket fins, they bend- easily; return excess ammo in learned that his dad had arrived territory without rousing the Meat Medal." original containers; don't abandon serviceable ammo. for Merchant Marine duty. Nazis. Monday, Dec. 11, 1944 THE STARS AND STRIPES Page 3 Filmfolk In the News from Home

HONEYMOONERS Col. Elliott PAT DANE, wife of trombonist BECAUSE her husband treated EX - RAVEN - HAIRED Gene Roosevelt and Actress Fay Tommy Dorsey, left a Los her and her friends with Tierney turned up a blonde the Emerson rub noses in New Angeles courtroom a free woman "superiority and contempt," other day for a new movie. "Bell York after their marriage last last week after the judge dis- Esther Williams, shapely star for Adano." In this movie Gene week. Elliott formerly was mem- missed charges against her of of the film "Bathing Beauty," plays the part of a Sicilian. la ber of an ETO Photo Recon assault on Sarong Boy John was granted a divorce recently recent movies she was a Chi- Unit in England. Hall. (Story on Page 4.) from Dr. Leonard Kovner. nese, Arabian and Polynesian. Yes, The'Statue of Liberty' in Times Square On the First Army Front

BURGESS MEREDITH, snown here with wife, Paulette God- dard, last week completed mak- ing the movie "Here Is Your War" about War Correspondent Ernie Pyle. Meredith, formerly an Army captain serving in Eng- land, plays the part of Pyle in the movie. Roundup at Metz

• This is Times Square as it looks today. A flood-lit 55-foot version of the Statue of Liberty Crouching close to the ground, a First Army was erected just in front of the Times Building as part of New York's Sixth War Loan soldier races for cover after a short gain under I Drive. Broadway (rem-ember?) is at the left, Seventh Avenue at the right. protection of fire from an armored vehicle.

Pistol in hand a Third Army infantryman'cautiously advances to capture German soldiers who sur- f llltl CrfV and hattlenstained tankmen attached to the Ninth rendered after' their unit had been surrounded on a muddy road near Metz. Germans still held then- & ' y Army line up for their ration of cake, after a day* last fort in this sector Sunday although their comrades had retreated to German soil two weeks ago. sortie of blasting holes through the Siegfried Line near Aachen. Page 4 THE STARS AND STRIPES Monday, Dec. 11, 1944 Congress, Draft System Oh! No, Not That! GlobalAviation Delegates End Rapped for Ammo Lack Chicago Parley WPB Official Urges By Phil Bucknell Sandwich-Eaters Now Stars and Stripes U.S. Bureau Manpower Law CHICAGO, Dec. 10. — The Civil Will Be Machine Fed Aviation conference wound up here Enforcement this weekend with the signing of a NEW YORK, Dec. 10 (ANS). document which is the first step WASHINGTON, Dec. 10. — The —Lunch-counter slang may fce to establish common rules for inter- need for national service legisla- as dead as Sanskrit after the national air traffic. tion was reiterated over the week- war. The New Board of Educa- Representatives of 54 countries end as Army and Navy production tion has announced successful attended the 37-day session which officials expressed alarm at lags in experimentation with a mecha- had set up a 20-nation interim delivery of top priority supplies nical device which 'turns out council, including a seat left vacant needed at the battlefronts. 3,500 sandwiches an hour, a job for Russia, the only major power War Production Chairman J. A. ordinarily requiring 90 pairs of which failed to attend. Krug blamed Congress and the Se- hands. Twenty council places were lective Service System for the man- The machine consists of a con- awarded to the U.S., U.K., France, power difficulties which he said veyor belt leading into cham- Belgium, China, Mexico, Nether- "imperiled production of most bers where butter or spread is lands, Canada, India, Brazil, Nor- urgently needed munitions." pressed upon a slice of bread way, Iraq, Peru, Australia, Czecho- Krug told the Senate War In- and another slice is dropped to slovokia, Egypt, Turkey, Salvador. vestigating Committeee that "there complete the job. Columbia and Chile. are ho teeth in the manpower re- The members who will meet in gulations primarily because Con- Canada to set up plans for per- gress refused to enact national Goodrich Co., its operators, an- manent postwar consultation and service legislation." nounced today. Officials said the joint operation include the U.S., output was equivalent to that of Would Enforce Powers U.K., France, Netherlands, Brazil, 14,000,000 rubber trees. He added, however, that it is too Mexico and Belgium. late now to pass such a law because Ask Vote Rule Change Called 'Notable Victory' it would take too long to get it WASHINGTON, Dec. 10 (ANS). Adolf A. Berle Jr., U.S. delegation working. The only hope of tighten- —A bill for a constitutional amend- chairman, characterized the session ing manpower controls is to en- ment to abolish the electoral col- as "notable victory for civilization," force more strictly powers of the lege method of choosing the Presi- adding that "Chicago is the first War Manpower Commission, he dent and Vice President has been chapter of a new world co-opera- said. introduced by Rep. Clarence Lea tion." Krug's conviction was disputed (D.-Calif.). Voters would ballot Representatives signed a docu- by Undersecretary of War Patter- directly for the candidates but the ment giving rights to fly over son, who repeated the WD's in- system of electoral votes would be territories for non-traffic purposes, sistence that legislation be enacted unchanged, each candidate receiv- but no Anglo-American agreement even at this late date. "The posi- ing electoral votes of a state in on economic rights was reached. tion of the War Department re- proportion to his popular vote in U.S. delegates demanded the right mains clear and definite," he said. the state. to pick up traffic on intermediate The WPB, meanwhile, issued a stops in any country, but U.K. list of "supercritical must-must Rubber Stocks at New Low members, with an eye to important items," of which no amount of pro- WASHINGTON, Dec. 10 (Reuter). "short haul" traffic in postwar duction for the time being would Europe, would not agree. be enough. They include heavy —Warning that Allied crude ruboer artillery and ammunition, combat stocks are now at the lowest ebb loaders for warships, superfortresses, since the start of the war, the WLB Stands Pat Combined Raw Materials Board A26 Invaders, trucks and communi- has appealed for augmented pro- On 'Little Steel/ cations wire. duction from all rubber - growing Emphasizing that production re- Bans Pay Boost quirements change as battlelines areas and greater conservation ef- forts in all the United Nations. Reports from Luxembourg, according to an Acme News photo cap- WASHINGTON, Dec. 10. — The shift, Patterson said that stepped- tion, say that an Army unit there recently declared that GIs are fed up delivery of artillery and ammu- War Labor Board has decided to OPA Pegs Price of GI Shoes up with pinup pictures. The reports irked Barbara Bates: (left) and keep the "Little Steel formula" as nition decided upon during thtr Kathleen O'Malley t>f Hollywood and they ask: "Is you or ain't you?" Italian campaign last spring, is WASHINGTON, Dec. 10 (ANS). the keystone of the nation's wage- just now rolling off production —The Office of Price Administra- stabilization policy and rejected the lines. tion has set price ceilings on CIO steel union's demand for a Army service shoes sold as work ATC Conquers Clear Dorseys general wage increase of 17 cents Booksellers Hit at Censorship shoes for civilian use at $6.50 a an hour. BOSTON, Dec. 10 (ANS).—Saying pair retail, $4.36 wholesale and However, the WLB granted that almost every Massachusetts $3.60 for sales by the government Arctic Blasts In Assault Case second shift workers an increase bookseller who has been in business to wholesalers. of four cents and third shift work- WASHINGTON, Dec. 10 (UP).— HOLLYWOOD, Dec. 10 (ANS).— for 30 years or more has been fined ers a raise of six cents an hour, re- The Army Air Transport Command Judge Arthur Crum over the week- for the sale of what a court held Southpaw Toothbrush troactive to the expiration of the is approaching its second winter end dismissed assault charges to be obscene books, the Massachu- WASHINGTON, Dec. 10 (ANS). companies' contract with the union. Any GI who has ever gone looking of full-scale operations over the against Tommy Dorset, his wife, The wage case, affecting 400.000 setts Library Association has an- North Atlantic, prepared to fly a Pat Dane, and their neighbor, Allen nounced sponsorship of a bill to for a left-handed monkey wrench steel workers, had been pending may be glad to know that there's far greater number of planes across Smiley, growing out of an attack since before the steel strike of last modify present censorship laws. The than last winter, and is confident" on Jon Hall, the Sarong boy. proposed measure would remove the really a left-handed toothbrush. December. The Patent Office has granted a that it has beaten Arctic weather Judge Crum referred to one of Chairman William H. Davis said present provision against sale of that once made flying in this area the state's principal witnesses actor books "manifestly tending to cor- patent on a toothbrush with a that the board's decision "does not swivel handle which, the inventor so hazardous. Antonio Icaza, who had been re- even bend" the Little Steel for- rupt the morals of youth" when Full knowledge of weather con- colled from Panama for the trail, the purchaser is more than 18. says, will be a boon to southpaws. mula, which limits general pay in- ditions obtained from weather sta- as "a fabulous, masterful fabric- creases to 15 percent above Janu- Plan Streamliner Servicer tions and reports of planes in tran- ator of falsehoods, perjuries pure ary, 1941, levels. Triangle's Still Eternal sit is the secret of successful win- and simple, demonstrated innume- NEW YORK, Dec. 10 (ANS). — SEATTLE, Dec. 10 (ANS). — Daily streamliner passenger train ter-long aerial operations rable times out of his own mouth." Finds $1,150 in Ashcan Hazel Scott, Negro Boogie Woogie Big transports carrying high Icaza entered the Dorsey-Hall pianist, said she would consider service between Chicago, the Twin NEW YORK, Dec. 10 (ANS). — Cities and the Pacific Northwest priority cargo and personnel and fiasco when he fried to file a $42,000 herself "extremely lucky" if Con- William Meyer, ten, searching ash- will be inaugurated by the Great bombers being flown to combat suit against Dorsey and was ship- gressman-elect Adam C. Powell Jr., cans for discarded comic books, Northern Railway as soon as new have a choice of three routes across ped back to Panama by immigra- Negro clergiman and publisher of fished out an envelope containing equipment is available. the North Atlantic. tion authorities who said he was in $1,150 in war bonds. Harlem, were free to marry her. the country illegally. The Icaza She made the statement after attempt to reopen the trial followed Powell's wife filed a separation 5 various testimonies in which actor Maj.'Sing' Bong Wins suit charging that her husband Geography, Not 'Topography, Eddie Norris claimed to have been was "infatuated with another knocked down and kicked in the Congressional Medal woman," a "night-club performer." Blamed for Overseas Romance teeth, Dorsey's wife was accused of a combination strip act and hair- WASHINGTON, Dee. 10—The Chinese AF Gets P51s Congressional Medal of Honor combination except that it was pulling bout, and Holl, the male INGLEWOOD, Calif., Dec. 10 NEW YORK, Dec. 10. — Geo- has been awarded to Maj. Ri- fattening. counter-part of Dorothy Lamour, (ANS).—The North American Avia- graphy—not biology—is the reason complained that somebody had chard Bong, of Poplar, Wis., for GI romances overseas, accord- She refuted the accusation of whose record of 38 enemy planes tion Co. announced yesterday that "pushfallness" of American girls sliced his profile with a knife. "a quantity" of Mustang fighters ing to Angela Wall, girl reporter of shot down in this war makes with the statement that "it is just has been allocated to the Chinese The Hartford Times. Angela hit him top American air ace of all air force. P51s already have seen the front pages of the nation's the American femmes' way of kid- 33 States Gave FDR time. Bong scored his latest air combat with the U.S. air force in newspapers this week after an ding and being nice to visitors." victories Dec. 7, when he shot China. interview with two British soldiers As for GIs marrying English Plurality of 3,446,648 down two Jap planes west of who told her that American cook girls, Angela said, "It's not because Leyte. The award was bestowed Rubber Bounces High ing is "ghastly" and American girls British girls' have more glamor, NEW YORK, Dec. 10 (ANS).— upon him because, serving as AKRON, Ohio., Dec. 10 (ANS).— are "pushful." more personality, more charm, or Presidential popular vote as tabu- gunnery instructor, he volun- better figures. They haven't got lated by UP from'official figures The government's synthetic rubber The Britishers are unhappy with teered for a series of combat factory at Port Neches, Tex. pro- apple pie & la." mode and cheese, anything that American girts of 33 states gave Roosevelt, 25,137,- missions in the Pacific and shot duced 100,000,000 pounds of rubber Angela wrote. She.commented that haven't got—but they have it. In 510 and Dewey, 21,690,562. The down eight Japanese planes. difference is 3,446,648. In the last 14 months, the B. F. she saw - nothing wrong with the England." Monday, Dec. 11, 1944 THE STARS AND STRIPES SPORTS Page 5 Red Light for Bucking Buckeye Onee Over Louis Refuses to Risk Stove League Maiming 'Playmate' Starts Cooking, Lightly CHICAGO, Dec. 10. —S/Sgt. Joe Louis, picking up some loose By Andy Rooney change boxing while on fur- A's Get Levy EW YORK, Dec. 10.—The major lough from Uncle Sam, refused NEW YORK, Dec. 10. — Club N leagues' annual meeting, which to trade punches with Elmer owners, managers and sundry of- opens here tomorrow, figures to be "Violent" Ray after his agents ficials poured into the city over one of the most important ever had "approved the match. the weekend to attend the annual held, with the "That man can't do any- meeting of the National and Amer- question of a thing but fight," the Brown ican Leagues. But, on the eve of successor to the Bomber said. "Maybe I can the first session tomorrow, the base- late Judge Lan- fight him later, but a boxing ball men got under way with what dis taking up exhibition would be impossible. promised to be one of the most most of the of- He wouldn't know how to box. active trading markets since the ficial business. He'd start swinging for keeps, war began. Since the death and one of us would get hurt." The Athletics sounded the first of the white- Which one, Joe wouldn't say. note by announcing the purchase maned old from Milwaukee judge everybody of Ed Levy, from Hector the first baseman Pup to Chiang- Thunderbolts and outfielder Kai - Shek has for Jack Mc- „en. Mar*aii been mentioned Gillen, rookie for the joo. But, it is safe to say Win 4th, 13-2 pitcher, and an that a new high commissioner will The undefeated Second AADA undisclosed not be appointed for another year, Thunderbolts scored their fourth sum of money. during which time the field can triumph at Vincennes yesterday, de- Levy was cu: be thoroughly covered and quali- feating the Fourth Service Group loose from the fications carefully weighed. Yankee chain Blue Devils, 13-2, in a Ninth AAF last summer MONG those proposed are Football League game. Derricotie, of Michigan, lifts Ohio State's Flanagan into the air on when he went A J. Edgar Hoover, Fiorello Trailing, 2-0, at the half, the a jarring tackle during the 18-14 thriller at Columbus which closed to the Brewers Vince DiMaggio • LaGuardia, Jimmy Walker, Thunderbolts scored in each of the an unbeaten, untied season for the Buckeyes. for Outfielder Herschel Martin. Branch Rickey, Larry MacPhail, following periods, Rudy Petrinl, of At least a dozen other players Jim Farley, Sen. James Mead Hummelstown, Pa., tallying both were reported to be on the block and a flock of others you pro- touchdowns. The victors capital- Little School Makes Big Noise as all 16 major league clubs went bably never heard of. More ized on a pair of fumbles, recover- hunting for 1945 strength. The people than you think are even ing one on the Blue Devils' eight- players mentioned were: Pitcher booming Gen. George C. Mars- yard mark and the other, a fumbled Valparaiso hive Upsets LIL Jim Bagby and Outfielder Jeff hall for the $65,000 post. lateral, on the three. Heath, Indians: Pitcher Don Black One thing is certain, when A bad pass from center which and Outfielder Bobby Estallela, the choice is made it better be went out of the end zone for an In Garden Basketball Debut Athletics; First Baseman Phil good because the shoes vacated automatic safety gave the Blue Weintraub, Giants; Outfielder by the Judge are awfully big. Devils their only points in the first NEW YORK, Dec. 10. — Valparaiso University's un- Vince DiMaggio and Catcher Babe period. OHORT SHOTS — N. Y. Herald heralded basketball team last night crashed Gotham's big Phelps, Pirates; Outfielder Lou ^ Trib's Stan Woodward, who's Novikoff, Cubs; Pitcher Harry been looking at football for a long, The SHAEF eleven defeated the time with an unexpected victory over Long Island U., 64-59, Brecheen, Cards; Outfielder Frank long time, says Ohio State's Les Engineer Raiders, 7-0, at Colombes Kelleher, Reds, and Infielder Eddie Stadium. in the second game of a double- " Horvath was the "most indispens- header in Madison Square Garden. Miksis, Dodgers. able man to a team" he ever had Bets $50,000 Mexico Ford Frick, National League pre- seen. When Buckeye historians 9th AAF Hqs. Wins Western Michigan made it a clean sident, also announced the purchase finished checking records they dis- CHANTILLY.—The Ninth AAF sweep for the visiting Midwesterners Can Beat Venezuela of Umpire "Butch" Henline, former covered this was the first perfect Headquarters football team defeated by whipping Brooklyn College, 58- major league catcher, from the in- season for State since the 1916 days First General Hospital, 13-0, here 52, in the opener. MEXICO CITY, Dec. 10. — ternational League. of its immortal Chick Harley . . . yesterday. Stan Dalszys passed to Castor Montoto, Mexican base- Heavyweight Tani Mauriello goes End Bernie Hafen from midfield Valparaiso, little-known Indiana ball magnate, has accepted a on record as saying Frank (The and the receiver raced 30 yards for school of 500 students, clipped the $50,000 wager offered by a group Verce) Sinatra no longer has a a first period touchdown. Dalszys Blackbirds in the last eight minutes of Venezuelans that their team McSpaden Sets piece of him and that he is manag- ran 20 yards for a tally in the final with a blazing spurt that netted can beat both Mexican and Cu- ing himself with the help of his quarter. 10 points, while L.I.U. went score- ban amateur nines. Montoto, seven brothers. If Tami can't lick Joe Meredith, left end for the less. Long Island, studded with however, stipulated the bet Oakland Pace 'em his brothers will ... Al losers, shone on defense. touted freshmen, erected a 37-32 would hold only if a series of lead in the first half but, after the OAKLAND, Cal., Dec. 10.—Harold "Bummy" Davis also thinks it pro- five games be played in Mexico "Jug" McSpaden, of Philadelphia, per to fight the family's battles. 29th TAC Holland Victor lead changed hands 14 times in the City with a U.S. umpire in second half, wilted before the yesterday shot a 69 to take the lead Last week he threatened to clean SOMEWHERE IN HOLLAND, charge. in the rich Oakland Open golf out an entire police station if they Hoosiers' closing rush. Bob Dille Dec. 10.—The 29th Tactical Air and Johnny Janisch, with 15 and tournament with a 54-hole total of didn't release his brother, "Little Command Headquarters eleven 12 points, led Valparaiso. Lester ing Michigan State, 58-31, The 207. Sgt. Jim Ferrier moved into Stinker" Davis, which is one way blanked the Ninth AAF, 7-0, before Buckeyes, with All-America Don second place with a 68-round and Rothman, L.I.U. veteran, collected Grate getting 18 points, led State to get knots on your head. . . 3,000 rainsoaked GIs here yes- 19. trails McSpaden by two strokes. Cmdr. Fred "Buzz" Borries, Navy's terday. all the way. The sharpshooting, speedy West- Byron Nelson, tied with McSpaden 1934 All-America, survived the Phi- at the end of the second round, lippines sinking of the escort car- ern' Michigan five did a workman- Seahawks Clip Gophers dropped into third place with a 72 rier, "Cambia Bay." Boston Six Trips like job on Brooklyn despite the Kingsmen's ability to stay within MINNEAPOLIS, Minn., Dec.10 — yesterday. Ky Lafoon and Mark reach all the way. Bernie Barnett Iowa Pre-Flight used only six men Fry were tied with Nelson at 211. Score Seven KOs inOise Maple Leafs, 5-3 of Brooklyn was top scorer with throughout ■ to defeat Minnesota, Sammy Snead, who turned in the 19 points. 38-32, with Joe Ary manufacturing best round of the day, 67, was dead- Special Service Bouts TORONTO, Dec. 10.—Harvey 16 points for the victor. locked with Sammy Bird in the Bennett, lanky Boston goalie, came Buckeyes Win fourth slot. Seven knockouts in twelve bouts up with one of the best net-mind- COLOMBUS.O, Dec. 10. —Ohio Football Besults featured the opening Oise Section ing performances of the season last Texas Aggies 70, Miami 14. Revolta, Harrison Tied Special Service boxing show Fri- night when the Bruins defeated State opened the defense of its Big Ten basketball title by overpower- Virginia State 15, Florida Aggies 7. MIAMI, Fla., Dec. 10. —Johnny day night. Pvt. Max Hutchins, Los the Maple Leafs, 5-3, for their Southern U. 19, Xavier (La.) 0. Revolta and Sgt. Dutch Harrison Angeles heavy, got a close decision fourth win in five games against of the Air Force shot 66 apiece over Cpl. Otis Kidd, Freeport, 111., Toronto. Bennett handled 47 yesterday to tie for first place in and Cpl. Mickey Willis, Sacra- saves, 22 of which were difficult Weekend Basketball Results the Miami Open golf tournament. mento, Cal., shaded T/5 Clarence and at least 10 from point-blank Their 54-hole total was 205. Sadler, Akron, Ohio. range. Friday's Scores Dartmouth 54. Camp Edwards 47. Maurice O'Connor carded 68 and Drake 35, Uornell College 28. Other results: Bridgewater 48, Gallaudet 31. Ecker Studio 56, Brigham Yoong 48, is third, Henry Picard fourth, Gene Pvt. Billy Proctor, Harrisburg, Pa., out- Hockey Standings Buckley Field 55, Colorado Aggies 21. Great Bend 54, Kansas State 51. Kunes fifth and Johnny Bulla Cherry Pt. Marines 54, High Point 17. pointed Pfc Josa Torres, Larado, Tex.; Illinois 56, Great Lakes 53. sixth. Pvt. AUonso Gates, St. Louis, outpointed Columbia 43, Union 42. Indiana 63, Camp Atterbury 8. Pvt. George Lockwood, Washington; T/4 National League DePaul 08, Wyoming 29. Iowa 101, Macomb Tchrs. 23. Bruce Grable, Fredericktown, Pa., stopped Hamllne 60, Carleton 23. Oma Beats Mauriello W L T Pts G OG Iowa Pre-Flight 38, Minnesota 32. Pvt. Johnny Perkins, Philadelphia; Pvt. Kansas 31, Washburn 27. ' Kentucky 66. Cincinnati 24. NEW YORK, Dec. 10.—Lee Oma, Leroy Peterson. Philadelphia, stopped Pfc Montreal 11 4 I 23 59 38 Lincoln Air Base 58, Peru Tchrs. 33. Louisville 43, Evansviile 34. Napoleon Arrington, Brooklyn; Pvt. Jo- Toronto 10 a * 20 63 55 Moorehead 51, Georgetown

Japs Threaten Li'I Abnei' By Courtesy of United Features. By Al Capp DON'T CARE. BUT, MAOAM/^TH'SADIE HAWKINS ) F IT MUST NOT HAVE NO TAIL, J NINE FEET THREE . RUL.ES IS THET WHUT NO LADY KIN HOOFS, FINS OR WINGS - 'UH- Allied Airmen KINDA IT MUST HAVE ONLY ' HOW THEN tO'HAINY MB IS A GENOOWINE HOOMIN BEAN F- CRITTER ONE. HAIO. IT MUST HIGH NECESSARI LY HOOMIN- IT IS rf- AH THIS CRITTER MAY BE A BACHELOR, NOT EAT ITS YOUNG THASS WHUT OLE CAUGHT IT IN BUT, ON TH' OTHER HAND, HE'S A APE AN' IT MUST WALK Yo'r MAN MOSE MEANT/'A- On 'Violations' TH' WOODS AN — NOW, TH'SADIE HAWKINS PAY ON LESS THAN R3UR SO VO' DON'T HAFTA SO IT GOTTA RULES CLEARLY DEFINES TH' LAIGS^r-ALSO- IT MARRY HER. Ll'L ABNER.^'y MARRY UP WIF REQUIREMENTS OF A HOOMIN BEAN MUST BE UNDER OH, HAPPY SADIE WASHINGTON, Dec. 10.—Japan ME.V 9 FEET HIGH.V- HAWKINS has formally notified United States DAY.V and Britain that it will "hold res- > ponsible" captured airmen who are "clearly found to have deliberately broken established practices of warfare," it was disclosed today. The implied threat to punish American fliers who bomb Japan was made on Dec. 3 through the Swiss Legation in Tokyo in answer to Allied inquiries regarding treat- By Courtesy of News Syndicate. ment of prisoners held by the Terry And The Pirates By Milton Caniff Japanese. No Official Reply No official comment to the Jap reply was made in the United States but it was recalled that President Roosevelt has pledged that all Japanese responsible for executions and other violations of Hague Convention will be brought to justice. The Japanese statement referred specifically to reports made by the British regarding treatment of prisoners being transported on a ship alleged to have been sunk by an American sub on Sept. 12, and left to die below decks. "Everything possible was done to save those prisoners," the Jap statement claimed, "and the 136 that were rescued are in the best of health and highly appreciative to the Japanese." Urge Plane Research WASHINGTON, Dec. 10. —Maj. Gen. Oliver P. Echols told a special House committee studying postwar j ilitary policy that "every piece of luipment" the Air Forces now have will be obsolete "within two to three years" and urged that provision be made for continued scien- J tific research by the armed, ser- j vices. AEf-KSS-AfN

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Page 8 THE STARS AND STRIPES Monday, Dec. 11, 1944 Service Paper Hitler Never Told Them There'd Be Days Like This Pottery Plant Terms British, Fight Waged in Reds ^Selfish' Saarguemines WASHINGTON, Dec. 10 (UP).— The Army and Navy Journal said By Earl Mazo tonight that British and Russian Stars and Stripes Staff Writer preoccupation with objectives other WITH 35TH DIV., Saarguemi- than defeat of Germany was res- nes, Dec. 10.—This division's bridge- ponsible for Allied failure to heads across the Saar were firmly achieve expectations in this count- established today when elements of ry that "the war in Europe would the 137th Reg. began cleaning out be over" by now. portions of Saarguemines still held Continuing on the same tack that by the Germans, on the east bank drew rebuke from the Soviet news- of the Saar. paper Pravda a week ago, the Doughfeet, working northward Journal also said Premier Stalin's along the river bank, encountered policy was encouraging Communist fierce resistance in a suburban pot- trouble-makers in Europe. Recalling tery factory where they tossed gre- that Prime Minister Churchill some nades from machine to machine months ago said time would show inside the building. It was cleared whether the United Nations could by noon. Another company moved weather good fortune as in their eastward through the city. From stress they had endured bad, the an observation post Americans Journal said: U.S. Army Signal Corps Photo. could be seen moving down city "Unhappily fear expressed in the What remained of the Strasbourg police force is shown here at its last formal ceremony as PWs putting streets as Germans pulled out over prime minister's statement had de- on a personal inspection for their captors. This is one of the first photos to come out of the liberated a hill several thousand yards to veloped some basis now that libera- French city on the old Alsatian border. the east. tion of European states has oc- American 240mm. artillery pound- curred. Since DDay in France ed a big tank and troop concentra- greater preoccupation has been Rattle of Messgear Replaces tion to the east of the city. Such shown by Russia in her Baltic and libs, Forts Hit artillery assistance has been effec- Balkan campaigns intended to in- tive several times here. sure her security and by Great Din of Battle in Fort Driant The attack of the 35th is a clas- Britain in Italy, Greece and Alba- Nazi Kailyards sic example of American doughboy nia to protect her lifeline through fighting, aided and abetted by the Mediterranean to India than in By Jimmy Cannon a pitched battle. The smell of More than 900 Eighth AF Libera- hardworking comba.t engineers. achievement of the prime objec- Stars and Stripes Staff Writer death was foul in the good smells tors and Fortresses, escorted by Some units from the 134th and tive of our armies—prompt defeat WITH FIFTH INF. DIV., Ft. of cooking food and coffee. 925 fighters, roared through heavy 320th regiments jumped off in the of Germany." Driant, Dec. 10.—The chamber was "They had quite a few wounded," clouds and in flying temperatures direction of Pattelange at 5:01 this filled with newly-oiled bicycles and said Lt. Barnett, "but few dead. ranging down to 54 below, to smash morning and crossed the Moder- a Cadillac, made in America. They evacuated the prisoners they at Nazi railyards in Stuttgart, bach by wading chest deep through "This place is so big their run- took but we found the graves of Coblenz and Bingen over the week- water and small ice floes. Patton Crushes ners would have used these bicy- end. some of our men inside the fort. Nazis Caught Napping cles if they could have," said Lt. They had their own dynamos and Approximately 400 heavies struck Counter Blows Robert J. Barnett, of Sandy Ridge, reservoir dug out of the rock and at railyards in Stuttgart Saturday, Advanced elements eased past Pa. "There must be at least ten several wells for water supply. But Yesterday 500 more dropped 1,500 and through the town of Patte- (Continued, from Page 1) miles of corridors. They even had our self-propelled 155s did them no tons of explosives on the congested lange, and rear elements, coming a machine shop to manufacture good at all. later, surprised Germans sleeping air and artillery fire and two tanks Rhine railyards at Coblenz and shell casings." "Do you know," the lieutenant Bingen, through bomb bays frozen in barns and in outpost foxholes were destroyed. Across the ugly valley Ft. Jean- around the town, capturing more Fighting in the town on the east went on, "what the commander, so tight they had to be cranked ne d'Arc, last of the Metz forts to Col. Richiver, said? He said T en- open by hand. than a company of them. One side of the Saar River, men of the be held by the enemy, fired now American lieutenant killed three 35th captured snipers in civilian joyed your K rations.' The men More than 150 Ninth AF Marau- and then in the sleet-streaked who pulled out after the hand-to- ders attacked enerqy positions and German officers in bed. clothes who were - identified as dusk. The generator growled The long, hard march and fight, troops of the 17th SS Panzer Gre- hand, fighting in the corridors in vehicles near Duren yesterday to nadiers. pleasantly inside this massive hill- September left them behind." support the drives of the U.S. First eight miles to the Saar, was made top fort from which 670 prisoners in record time and portions of In Saarlautern to the north, 95th Now in the fort that smelled of and Ninth Armies. On Saturday, were taken. Dim electric bulbs lit death there was music. Pvt. Earl 325 medium bombers plastered the Saarguemines on the west bank of Div. men seized the railway sta- the chambers where shadows fro- tion and a hotel which the Nazis Knox, of Belton, S.C., sucked "Weep Germans on the Third Army front, the river were cleared while plans licked in a sombre ballet. No More, My Lady" out of a har- hitting towns, troops and barracks were rushed for the crossing. had fortified. They also knocked Messgear clattered and a chow out nine Siegfried pillboxes which monica. It was a song with many of a German replacement depot at Engineers found the Germans run through the town. line moved in the gloaming of the echoes. And the music followed Baumholder, near Saarbrucken. had blown up one railroad bridge, halls where the Fifth had fought First Army forces to the north you down the dark, crooked halls. but had not done a thorough job. Approximately 125 Ninth fighter- Therefore, in the dark of night< reached the outskirts of Pier, two bombers smashed at the Siegfried miles east of Inden, in their one- Russians Close In Leftist Leaders Hit Line area Saturday, scoring hits on they mended it. as best they could, kilometer advance. This town had a tank concentration at Saargue- into an adequate foot bridge. To previously been reached by patrols mines and a bridge across the Erst play safe another foot bridge was when Hodges' men began attacking As Germans Flee By Greek Premier River at Euschkirchen. built 500 yards away and assault in that area last week. boats were brought up for the Another 350 fighter-bombers crossing. They also reached the towns of (Continued from Page 1) ATHENS, Dec. 10 (AP).—As Brit- pounded at the Germans in front Gey and Schafberg, 15 miles south- ish and Greek government troops of the First and Ninth Armies east of Aachen. eluding a.steel net charged with 3,000 volts Of electricity. Artillery- entered the sixth day of their bat- yesterday, concentrating on instal- Soldier Asks Divorce At Bergstein, First Army men de- men successfully sniped electrical tle with EL AS demonstrators, lations near Duren and Julich, fended the hill they took last week transformer stations before the Greek Premier George Papandreou late reports last night disclosed. Over 'Eugenie' Baby overlooking the Roer as Germans told a press conference today that main assault was launched. RAF Mosquitoes hit Berlin again made determined attacks to retake Meanwhile, German and Hunga- the "civil war will cease only when CHICAGO, Dec. 10 (ANS).—An the high ground. leaders of the extreme left declare Saturday night, while the Italy- rian counter-attacks ousted the based 15th Air Force made more extra-marital problem posed a si- in Alsace, Seventh Army forces Russians from Marcala, eight miles they are ready to keep their word" tuation so difficult that the case were held to limited gains seven for disarmament of partisan forces. than 1,600 sorties against railyards from Lake Balaton. Farther north and oil refineries at Regensburg was referred to a special commis- miles south of the Saar border. At several small communities were "There exists," he said, "no way sioner for Investigation. the southern end of the province, and against the Skoda plant in also retaken from the Russians. of putting an end to the present Pilsen over the weekend." Pfc Gerald Brennan, 31, charged Germans resistance tightened at situation" other than to get "rid of his wife, Irma, 21, with misconduct Thann. pivot of German positions the cause which provoked it." Franco-Russian Treaty Signed British Planes Hit Ships in becoming the mother of a running eastward to Mulhouse and A Reuter report said it was daughter 14 months after he had northward into the high Vosges. MOSCOW, Dec. 10 (Reuter).—A authoritatively stated in Athens, LONDON. Dec. 10 (Reuter).— left home. In answering the suit Franco-Russian treaty of mutual that no peace approach had been The Admiralty announced yester- she said her husband had asked ComZ Heads Promoted; assistance was signed at the Krem- made to Gen. Scobie, the British day that British naval aircraft had her to have a child by another man lin early today, in a formal cere- commander, and nothing was damaged two German supply ships because he was unable to be a Win Legion of Merit mony climaxed by an all-night ban- known of a split in ELAS forces. off the southern coast of Norway. father. quet. Brig. Gen. Royal B. Lord of Shortly afterward, Gen. de Washington, D.C., Com. Z, chief of Gaulle left Moscow by train, de- Jap 'Quake Caused by B29s? New Ford Car Ready staff, and Brig. Gen. Harry B. claring in a farewell speech, "The Vaughan Jr., of Bryn Mawr, Pa., days we have spent here will leave Soon After Nazis Fall UK base commander, have been their mark in the history of this HAMILTON,N.Y., Dec. 10 (ANS).—A Colgate University geologist appointed major generals, Lt. Gen. war and in a peace for the good said today that B29 bombings of the Tokyo area may have caused NEW YORK, Dec. 10 (ANS).— John C.H. Lee, Com. Z commander, of all men." last Thursday's earthquake and tidal waves in Japan. Within a few months after V-E- announced yesterday. Dr. Harold O. Whitnall maintained that bombs dropped in or Day, if the government gives the In .addition, three colonels- near volcanoes "should produce not only cataclysmic eruptions but "green light," Ford cars will start Oscar N. Solbert, of Washington, Owners Burn War Bonds also earthquakes." rolling off the assembly line. They chief of Special and Information MIAMI, Fla., Dec. 10.—Fire de- Dr. Whitnall said, "Soon after Doolittle raided Tokyo in April, will include the "face-lifted" varia- Services in the ETO, Roy W. stroyed $675 worth of War Bonds 1942, Mt. Asama erupted. In March, 1943, after U.S. fliers had given tion of the 1942 model and a new Grower, of St. Louis, Brittany Base here while the owners looked surrounding areas a pounding, Mt. Vesuvius, in Italy, erupted. Now low-priced car, Henry Ford II. said Section commander, and Fenton S. on and laughed. Twenty-seven tidal waves preceded by an earthquake of a type I say could be today. Jacobs, of San Francisco, Channel members of the Consolidated Vultee produced by bombing may have occurred after repeated attacks on The vice-president of the Ford Base Section commander—have Aircraft Corp. "Bond Fire Club" Japan." Motor Co. said he could not quote been promoted to brigadier general. burned $25 bonds as "a part of our The geologist declared that the earth around Tokyo is so badly the exact prices on new cars but All five have received the Legion debt to the nation" and a voluntary dislocated that almost any bombing- might cause dislocations leading did reveal they would run 28 to of Merit for meritorious services. gift to the U.S. to quakes. 30 miles to a gallon of gas.